New Plymouth Aug. 6th./49 Sir, I was glad to find from your letter of 23 July that the Police information furnished was satisfactory to you. Rundle's discharge has been the subject of animadversion, and employment has been thrown at him right and left. I made a point of seeing him on the subject of the situation you were kind enough to offer him, which he declines accepting out of consideration to his wife, who is a sickly woman with a child at her breast. I also availed myself of other opportunities of making your offer to him known and am glad to observe that it elicited